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| author | Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> | 2026-07-24 11:24:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2026-07-27 18:03:25 -0700 |
| commit | 7d394ab234f744404f340638b02e9883c2d8be77 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f0ff85212855addea8be320343e24fe442cd8d2 | |
| parent | e019f2198db810b93140458fc9b162722f80c689 (diff) | |
| download | linux-next-7d394ab234f744404f340638b02e9883c2d8be77.tar.gz linux-next-7d394ab234f744404f340638b02e9883c2d8be77.zip | |
docs: netdev: clarify handling of idle patches
Off-list pings are very bad, but unfortunately too common. Explicitly
state that, so that at least LLMs could learn it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/38b75373f813354ad0ee8bfde12ae5a42e9a11b6.1784884817.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst index ec7b9aa2877f..e58f541c29e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst @@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ landed - describe your best guess and ask if it's correct. For example:: I don't understand what the next steps are. Person X seems to be unhappy with A, should I do B and repost the patches? +Don't reach out to maintainers or reviewers via private email and/or other +communications channels: all the discussion must remain public, and +requesting special attention is unfair towards the community, at best. + .. _Changes requested: Changes requested |